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Some Common Errors

1. Unable to enumerate USB device under virtualbox.

  1. Download the extension pack
    1. Open your file manager and double-click on the file that should be named something like Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.0.0.vbox-extpack. When you double-click that file, VirtualBox 7.0 will automatically open and install the extension pack for you.
  2. Add user to vboxusers group
    1. For your user to do a number of things with VirtualBox, it must be a member of the vboxusers group.
    2. Open a Terminal window and issue the command:sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $USER
    3. Log out of the desktop and log back in.
  3. Add specific USB device
    1. Open settings from the virtual box main screen.
    2. Settings > USB
    3. Select USB 3.0 from the menu.
    4. Add your device from the USB device filters

Useful Links : 1. How to Add a USB Device to VirtualBox on Windows 2. How to fix the VirtualBox USB enumeration error and extension pack installation | TechRepublic

2. SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted and SIOCSIFHWADDR: Operation not permitted

This error happens when we want to disable a device like wlan0 (changing the MAC address). Simply use the sudo command to do that and it will work.

sudo ifconfig eth0 up/down
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up/down